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I bailed on the company party last week but I can't really get out of the departmental party next week. Just show up and hang for an hour, hopefully there will be some decent food. My boss for the past 7 years is retiring this month and in the past she would take us to a very expensive meal someplace with $100 bottles of wine and I would get FUCKED UP. Good wine is good!

There is an incredible amount of candy and sweets around from all the vendors.

Since I started working at home, every day's an office party of one. Woo hoo.

I read somewhere that more people get fired for what they did or said at holiday office parties than for any other reason.

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Originally Posted by girlgun

i don't know how i meant it to come out. i... don't... know. i wasn't flirting.

oh no... i did all that last night at his work party.

i have a bad habit of calling people pussies when i drink.

there's this one guy who hates me because he's nickname is now pussy.

4th of july:
girl: hey everyone want a shot?
pussy: oh no... not me.
me: why the fuck not? you a fucking pussy? waaaah does your pussy hurt? awww your poor poor fucking pussy. you fucking pussy... just take a fucking shot, puss.
pussy: blank stare
girl: here are the shots! (and she brought the pussy one too... we all drink shots, including the pussy)
me: awww did that make your pussy feel better, you fucking pussy?

and on... and on....

i tried to tell him one night that i didn't really think he was a pussy... he didn't seem to care.

ha ha no worries. just 2 days ago i called my wife's boss a pussy. oooops!

if anyone asks you, tell them you got involuntarily drunk because of all the stress of your house being invaded by icebergs

lol, i'm leaving for mine in an hour... they sprung for a buffet of fancy food and an open bar! at a country club! i'm gonna get thrashed! hopefully i'll still have a job tomorrow.

Actually, as long as it's free and alcohol is served, I'm there. It's the ones they hold in a dreary conference room with soda and cashews that I find excrutiating.

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Originally Posted by avantgarde1

lol, i'm leaving for mine in an hour... they sprung for a buffet of fancy food and an open bar! at a country club! i'm gonna get thrashed! hopefully i'll still have a job tomorrow.

just don't say or do much! Drink happily but quietly and you'll be fine.

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Originally Posted by gmku

just don't say or do much! Drink happily but quietly

that's the guy who gets his desk moved to the basement.

Let me rephrase it. Drink friendly and make only small talk, circulate a little but don't stand out.

i am so glad i will never have to deal with this kind of shit my whole life.

I try to avoid them as much as I can, but sometimes you just get cornered and you have to go. I don't mind leaving parties so much because it's generally an occasion when everyone gets plastered and the person who is leaving slags off his/her entire department and collegues to comedy effect, but I simply don't particularly want to socialise with people from my own department so much, even though I get along with virtually all of them.

I got fired from my job.

so i went, and it was only an open bar for about 2 hours. but that was long enough for me to get pretty shitty. it was actually kinda boring, but the food was good. everybody started to leave about 2 hours into it. although me & my roomate (who was my date, lol) ended up going to a bar w/ a few of my kooler co-workers and their wives and getting even drunker, lol!

i had mine the other night - the eventful things what happened were some guy attempting to break my thumb in a club afterwards... and then also I witnessed a co-worker do a shit in the middle of the smoking area, which, to say the least, was pretty wild. Apparently the place is trying to get the police involved - which, if true, is great!